Stanley Kroenke
Enos Stanley Kroenke (/ˈkroʊŋki/; born July 29, 1947) is an American businessman and entrepreneur. He is the owner of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, which is the holding company of English Premier League football club Arsenal, the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL, Denver Nuggets of the NBA, Colorado Avalanche of the NHL, Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer, Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League, and the newly formed Los Angeles Gladiators of the Overwatch League.
The Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche franchises are currently owned by his wife, Ann Walton Kroenke, to satisfy NFL ownership restrictions that forbid a team owner from owning teams in other markets.[3] Ann is the daughter of Walmart co-founder James “Bud” Walton.
He was estimated to be worth US$8.5 billion by Forbes in 2018.
- Stanley Kroenke is a real estate and sports mogul with an international portfolio.
- He owns some 30 million square feet of real estate — much of it shopping plazas near Walmart stores.
- Kroenke owns the Los Angeles Rams, which he moved back to California from St. Louis in 2016.
- His sports empire also includes the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rapids and Britain’s Arsenal soccer club.
- He is a major landowner, with nearly 2 million acres of ranches across the U.S. and Canada.
